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Select postings in reverse chronology

2016 November 18 The Diane Arbus List: 9 Photographers Discuss the Legend's Early Days TIME magazine, by Jason Eskenazi.

2016 October 28 -- 2017 February 5 Centro José Guerrero New York in Photobooks. A study of 48 classic photobooks focused on New York, capital of the twentieth century, the most photogenic and photographed city in history. Included, among others are Berenice Abbott's Changing New York, Weegee's Naked City, Roy Decarava and Langston Hughes' The Sweet Flypaper of Life, Helen Levitt's A Way of Seeing, East 100th Street and Subway by Bruce Davidson, Invisible City by Ken Schles and Here is New York: A democracy of photographs.

2016 July 01 Deichtorhallen International Kunst und Photographie video interview by Alexa Oona Schulz with Ken Schles exploring his old turf on the Lower East Side. Produced for the Video Guide during the exhibition, "Ken Schles, Jeffrey Silverthorne, Miron Zownir."

2016 February 15 HiConsumption mentions Invisible City as one part of "Light Show: The 25 Best Photography Books."

2016 February 1 At The Rubin Museum of Art's Caberet Cinema, Ken Schles gave a short talk introducing Frederico Fellini's Amarcord and how it connected to the work of the photographer Steve McCurry.

2016 January 27 LPV Show LPV Show episode 3.3 with Sacha Lecca (photographer and Deputy Photo Editor of Rolling Stone) discuss with moderator Bryan Formhalls my book The Geometry of Innocence at the 55:16 mark to 1:03:46.

2015 December 30 NRC Handelsblad The Dutch national paper NRC Handelsblad featured my exhibition at Noorderlicht Photography Gallery in their end of year list of best exhibitions shown in The Netherlands during the past year. Very pleased to share the page with Vincent Willem van Gogh and Heironymous Bosch (or is it Pieter Breugel the Elder?).

2015 December 30 NRC.NEXT The Dutch national paper NRC Handelsblad issuses a shortened daily supplement distributed freely to commuters and the culturally savvy. See above entry.

2015 December 29 VTM Online "The Best Photography Books of 2015." Invisible City selected best photography book of 2015 by VTM Online (in Vietnamese).

2015 November 5 Deutsche Borse The Deusche Borse Photography Prize announces the short-listed artists for their 2016 award. While my work was not among the four photographers, my exhibition at Noorderlicht earlier in the year was nominated on the long list.

2015 October 23 Photo Plus International Conference and Expo "Street Photography: The Common and the Phenomenal," In the keynote panel discussion with Sally Davies, Daniel Weiss, Dennis Keeley and Jeffrey Henson Scales at the Javits Center.

2015 August 15 Zeit Magazin "Vom Hunger auf ein Leben ohne Morgen" (With a hunger for a life without tomorrow).

2015 July 18 Lit Riot Press "We view his work full of movement, with animated and spirited subjects, themes of eroticism and chaos, and a surly visceral viewing experience."

2015 July 15 Street Hunters "Invisible City is like a dark and dirty little secret."

2015 July 07 The Phoblographer "Five Photobooks That Are Sure To Inspire You." But I count six: Exiles by Josef Koudelka, The Americans by Robert Frank, American Photographs by Walker Evans, Invisible City and Night Walk by Ken Schles and Good Dog by Yusuf Sevinçli.

2015 July 02 C MPL T UNKN WN "We are riveted by American photographer Ken Schles’ startling black-and-white images. Both bleak and ravishing, lyrical and beautiful, the photographs of a now -mythic era of New York history capture the dystopian overtones of an almost Kafkaesque city, in his landmark cult book Invisible City."

2015 June 10 Issue 20 of Landscape Stories, Night, is a compendium of work from 36 photographers along with words from the likes of Jorge Luis Borges, Maurice Blanchot, Emily Dickinson and Blind Willie Nelson.

2015 May 28 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) Article and portfolio "Lautlos durch die Nacht" (Silent Through the Night) by Freddie Langer (German and with translation) "Both books are of enormous force so intimate and direct, that it sometimes pains the eyes. They are marked by a lust for life out of control."

2015 May 15 The Cut: New York Magazine "Preview: The Fashion World’s Most Eccentric Magazine," by Erica Schwiegershausen. Ken Schles lead mention in the same sentence as Yoko Ono, John Waters, Harmony Korine and Mary Ellen Mark. Silly to mention perhaps, but there, I mentioned it.

2015 April 16 NRC "Briljant tijdsbeeld van een stad in verval" (Brilliant Portrait of a City in Decline) by Rianne van Dijck Review of exhibition at Noorderlicht in Groningen. 5/5? from the national Dutch daily newspaper.

2015 April 12 Write up of Celebrity Benefit For East Village Fire Victims My Fox NY.com Headlined by Patti Smith and emcee'd by Randy Jones of The Village People. Projected video of Invisible City with music by Live Skull.

2015 April 02 Brooklyn Rail "Invisible City and Night Walk by Ken Schles." By Adam Bell.

2015 March 31 1000 Words Magazine "Ken Schles Invisible City/Night Walk." Peggy Sue Amison speaks to Ken Schles about his Invisible City and Night Walk work, which pay homage to the exploding 1980s New York arts scene and a community entwined with drugs, violence and the arrival of AIDS.

2015 March 06 The art historian and curator Klaus Honnef wrote, "...we saw exciting photographic exhibitions, nothing new, but revealing. Howard Greenberg in midtown showed Ken Schles' cycle, "Invisible City / Night Walk 1983-1989." An absorbing and moving journey through the alternative world of downtown Manhattan in the eighties, which was recruited from artists, outsiders, fire heads, shipwrecked, Freaks and in the extensive drug use raised no question. AIDS has largely eradicated this world. At the periphery, we have come to know it - it was not our world. In contrast black-and-white images Schles the dark and desperate side of this "scene" will be displayed. Images that cause thoughtfulness, especially since creativity is celebrated as bright phenomenon."

2015 March 03 Feature Shoot "Raw Photographs Capture The East Village During The Heroin Epidemic of the 1980S."

2015 March 02 T Magazine of the NY Times Discussion about the upcoming pop-up rare book store by Harper's Books at The Carlyle Hotel during the Armory Art Fair, NYC.

2015 March 02 Otra Forma de Mirar "La belleza es la percepción de algo en su contexto adecuado." (Beauty is the perception of something in its suitable context) My entry in The Photographer's Playbook: "Invent The World For Me." In Spanish.

2015 March 01 Slate "This New York City Neighborhood Was 'Invisible' in the ’80s."

2015 February 19 Tilted-Arc Backstory: Ken Schles "…we only see what we want to see. Some say we only see what we already know. But I think more is possible, that we can be opened to deeper meanings, because all understanding comes through metaphor."

2015 February 17 Curbed "Chronicling the Dark, Seedy Underbelly of 1980s New York."

2015 February 13 Gallery Gurls "Ruven Afanador, Steven Meisel and Ken Schles: Three must-see photography exhibits." "Schles effectively documents the crime-ridden, treacherous streets of downtown New York... this show serves as a love letter to an era now eradicated by gentrification and massive corporatization of this city."

2015 February 09 Jocks & Nerds (England) "Night Walk/Invisible City 1983-1989" Interview highlighting my time in the East Village and current exhibition at Howard Greenberg Gallery.

2015 February 09 L'Oeil de la Photographie "February : MEP Bookstore selection by Irène Attinger," Irène Attinger’s selection of photography books on sale in the bookstore of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris. They were chosen for their originality, editorial quality and the importance of their content. Invisible City et Night Walk.

2014 December 28 E.V.Grieve picks up the NYTimes profile and portfolio, along with links to videos as well as other connections.

2014 December 28 Miwa Susuda selects the reprint of Invisible City among best photobooks of 2014.

2014 December 26 The New York Times runs an online portfolio from Invisible City and Night Walk in addition to a small interview. Print version was published in the Metropolitan section on December 28th, 2014 page 10.

2014 December 24 Mother Jones selects the Steidl editions of Invisible City and Night Walk as Best Photobooks of 2014.

2014 December 19 Vogue Italia selects the Steidl editons of Invisible City and Night Walk as Best Photobooks of 2014.

2014 December 16 Dashwood Books hosts the 1st Stateside signing of Invisible City and Night Walk. A record turnout, by their accounting, with a line out the door. Sold out. Link to event mailing.

2014 November 28 TIME selects the Steidl editions of Invisible City and Night Walk as Best Photobooks of 2014. This is the first time an artist has had two books honored in the same year thusly.

2014 November 12-16 Paris Photo in the Grand Palais, Paris. Exhibition at the Howard Greenberg Gallery. Book signing and release of the reprint of Invisible City and the debut of the publication Night Walk, both with Steidl.

2014 October 18 - November 17 Fotoistanbul Cities and Stories brings together the work of reknown photographers William Klein, Guy Tillim, Tom Roma, Chris Anderson, Ken Schles and Seiji Kurata among others in this festival on the banks of the Bosphorus. Master talk by Ken Schles on Night Walk also brings to Istanbul the world premiere exhibition of this body of work.

2014 July 02 A Suspension of Memory This new Daylight Digital project presents images from Invisible City and premieres images from the soon-to-be-released Night Walk — synthesized together with video and an original collaborative text by Alan Rapp.

2014 June 19 L'Oeil del a Photographie Vision is only perception when it is stimulated by experience, which is impregnable. Review of Oculus at Only Photography, Berlin, by Laurence Cornet.

2013 December 10 Deirdre's Best [Photobooks] of 2012-2013 Monsters and Madonnas, the blog of the library at the International Center of Photography lists 10x10 American Photobooks.

2013 December Rangefinder Magazine, Photo Finish "New York City Night Life" by David Carol on the reprinting of Invisible City.

2013 November 10 American Photo Magazine "Photobook Collectng In he Age of the Thousand Dollar Zine," an interview with photobook expert Tom Claxton gives advice on photobook collecting and mentions his strategy for obtaining a copy of Invisible City.

2013 October 24-27 6th Kassel Fotobook Festival releases the volume On Daido, a photographic anthology of statements and homages to Daido Moriyama made by internationally known photographers and authors (I was honored to be be invited to contribute). 88 pages, 30×30 cm. Out of print.

2013 September 24 Review of the 10x10 American Photobooks project. For the FOAM Blog.

2013 September 16-24 The first Sofia Photography Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria featuring an exhibition of Invisible City. Here is a link to the catalog.

2013 September 15 Announced selections for the 2013 Kassel Photobook Award, of which I was a jury member.

2013 September 11 10x10 American Photobooks opens at the Tokyo Institute of Photography. Invisible City will be on display in the gallery and reproduced twice in the book, selected by both Kazuhiro Yamaji of Flying Books and Douglas Stockdale of the Photobooks blog along with A New History of Photography selected by Tom Claxton of Claxton Projects. I also contributed an essay to the catalog.

2013 September 10 The selection of Invisible City for the 10x10 American Photobooks exhibition by Kazuhiro Yamaji of Flying Books of Tokyo is revealed.

2013 September 08 To end AD Coleman's five part blog series on the state of contemporary photobook publishing, There Will Be Ink, Coleman weighs in on e-book publishing and ends his essay with a link to the e-book/iBook study of Invisible City by The Photobook Club.

2013 September 08 The launch of the new magazine Let's Panic features an essay by Ken Schles and reproductions from Invisible City.

2013 May 03 10x10 American Photobooks previews in LIC, NY ahead of an exhibition September 2013 at the Tokyo Institute of Photography. In addition to the selections mentioned below made by photobook experts, I was asked to contribute an essay to the catalog.

2013 April 30 Podcast interview on Necessary and Sufficient. Prime and Zoom: Funny how an effort to define a technical photographic idea quickly shifts into the realm of meaning.

2013 April 27 2013 "These photobooks all have one critical characteristic in common: insightful and intelligent artists have produced them. They are photographers who use the tools of their medium to enquire, reflect and provoke, and have produced works that compel the viewer to question both the subject documented and the social landscape of our surroundings." Tom Claxton on his Claxton Projects site announces 10 selections for the publication 10x10 American Photobooks (see description in previous entry). Tom Claxton cites the 10 significant books of the last 10 years, A New History of Photography being one of them.

2013 April 25 2013 "Ken Schles – Invisible City: Photographs by Ken Schles (Twelvetrees Press, 1988) A gritty documentary project that brought the essence of Robert Frank into the city. A photobook that is a classic and a wonderful example of the progression in photobook publishing." Douglas Stockdale on his Photobooks site announces his selection for the publication 10x10 American Photobooks, a new publication to be released this Fall listing significant contributions of American photobook makers in the last 25 years. This project, spearheaded by the International Center of Photography Library, the Tokyo Institute of Photography and the Facebook Photo Group selected photobook experts from around the world to make selections.

2013 March 08 Talk on 4 books, an eBook and an upcoming publication at the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Center for Photography accompanying exhibition.

2013 March 7 "Don't Miss" San Francisco Chronicle runs half page description of exhibition of Invisible City at the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Gallery Center for Photography in the 96 Hours section of the paper. Reception, talk and book signing March 8th.

2013 February 13 Le Journal de la Photographie Essay on the Invisible City exhibition in Berkeley. "We know a place best through the intimacies of contact: through direct and meaningful encounters with people situated in the everyday; through the tactile surfaces of walls and flesh and streets—and through the mythos that we distill from each and every one of those encounters..."

2013 February 11 Gave a talk at Cooper Union (my alma mater) for a history of photography class. The talk was on my book: A New History of Photography. But what was really special about it was seeing Gail Buckland, the extraordinary history of photography professor I studied under still teaching --33 years later.

2013 February 4 Ken Schles shares an interview he gave Chinese magazine Photoworld about digital promotion for the photographer. For the FOAM Blog. Well, actually for Photoworld magazine. (Linked now to my Wordpress site, Seeing Images, Seeing Things)

2013 January 23 - April 30 Exhibition of Invisible City at the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Gallery Center for Photography. Reception, talk and book signing March 8th.
Reception starts at 6pm in the library. Talk North Gate Room 105 (corner Hearst & Euclid, Berkeley) directions

2012 December 10 OculusThe Photobook Club's B*@t of year two years back to back. "It is always pleasing to find out that the book you were gushing about 12 months ago is one that has continued to entertain and educate/frustrate over this past year."

2012 December 08 Invisible City by Ken Schles from 1988. (3:10 mark) "Perhaps one of the greatest portrayals of nocturnal urban life of the 20th Century -- certainly keeping equal company with Brassai's classic Paris de Nuit. Writing in 1988 New York Times Critic Andy Grundberg hailed its "minor key vitality and unkempt brilliance." Critic Guy Trebay said Schles' Invisible City is "a picture book that comprehends both the shambles and the thrall of the city," " quotes Photo-Eye auction's curator, Eric Miles.

2012 December 07 "The most surprising 2012 photobook publication to me has been The Photobook Club's free-of-charge e-book: Ken Schles – Invisible City: A Digital Resource. A page-by-page digital representation of the beautifully printed original 1988 book (which is rare and expensive nowadays) embedded within notes around the production of the book, and recent discussions. An excellent example of how valuable older, sometimes overlooked and understudied, photobooks can be lifted out of the shadows and be studied in a public realm beyond the traditional library." —Taco Hidde Bakker

2012 November 27 Top Digital Photobook (2012) Ken Schles: Invisible City, A Digital Resource by The Photobook Club as selected by The Digital Photobook website.
A book about my book is selected as a best book of 2012.

2012 October 18 A pop-up book exhibition at the Irvine Arts Center in Irvine California will replicates the book exhibition curated for the FotoGrafia di Roma XI exhibition at MACRO (Oculus included).

2012 October 07 Essay The Scale of Reality. We live in a physical world and we live in an image world. Ken Schles looks at the relationship between our relative size, the tools we make and the ideas we have to explain how we see and experience the world. For the FOAM Blog.

2012 September 22 Talk on Invisible City at the Istanbul Photography Museum. Exhibition extended to October 15th.

2012 September 20 As part of the FotoGrafia di Roma XI, there will be an exhibition of important recent photographic books on exhibit at the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma (MACRO) Testaccio, guest curated by Douglas Stockdale of The Photobook blog. My book Oculus will be on display and a copy placed into the permanent collection of the museum.

2012 September 19 Oculus among Le Journal de la Photographie's round-up of best photobooks of the season. "a unique book that will speak to Every Man at every level ...beautifully crafted ...deeply satisfying. This fourth book marks Ken Schles as a true master of his art and culture maker of the highest caliber."

2012 April 16 Cuatro Cuerpos "Somos lo que vemos, vemos lo que somos" (We are what we see, we see what we are) Review in this wonderful Spanish photobook blog out of Madrid of A New History of Photography.Translation.

2012 March On Shadow: I had the opportunity to sit down with photographer Ken Schles a few weeks ago to discuss some ideas that had recently been bouncing round my head and how they related to some of the ideas discussed in his books. We started talking as soon as I arrived at his home, but I wasn't able to get my recorder out quick enough to catch everything. Nonetheless, as you'll see below, we had a long, engaging discussion touching on a whole variety of themes…

2012 January 25 and 30 I got a chance to guest blog for the esteemed photocritic A.D. Coleman on his blog Photocritic International. What do an evolutionary biologist and a Situational theorist have to teach us about the contemporary state of photographic criticism? Read my essay "Infinite Stupidity." Part one is here and this is part two.

2012 January 11 This on the Photobookclub site (UK): "A few months ago Ken Schles spoke at the SPE Northeast Conference in Syracuse [link to talk embedded at their site or see November 5th, 2011 entry below], if ever there was a dream-team conference, this was it for me! Ken's talk was posted online yesterday and I recommend anyone with even a passing interest in photobooks must take the time to view it.
Ken takes us through all four of his monographs, looking both at content and theme as well as the publication challenges and triumphs he experienced. What most interested me is just how much Ken's books seem ultimately to form chapters in a much larger body of work, his interests and more importantly questions are never repeated, but we are reminded of them constantly.
Ken is proof that Tod Papageorge knew what he was talking about:
"If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't reading enough" – Tod Papageorge
This talk is best enjoyed with a chilled beverage and note taking device"

2011 December 27 Photo-Eye Best photobooks of 2011. Oculus "A poignant meditation on images and memory, Schles' book is as evocative as it is beautiful."

2011 December 22 Photo-Eye Review of Oculus by Adam Bell "Oculus is an unusual and uniquely important book, and defies easy categorization. Equal parts philosophical treatise and artist book, Oculus asks profound questions about how we find meaning in the world and how images give shape to memory and our lives. Viewers willing to spend time with this powerful work will be greatly rewarded."

2011 December 20 Marc Feustel's Eyecurious Blog entry "Photobooks 2011: And the winner is…" This seems to be the year of the photobook lists, of lists "talking" to lists. What do these lists signify? (Note: this entry was updated to include other books--such as Oculus--which made it onto a few more lists after this blog entry's original pub date.)

2011 December 16 Conveyor Blog Photobook Friday report on my sold out book signing at the International Center of Photography the night before "Oculous, [sic] released this October by Stichting Aurora Borealis, is an absolutely drop dead gorgeous, twelve inch by nine inch, ninety-six page book-fetishist's delight..."

2011 December 1 New York Foundation for the Arts Currents Meet A NYFA Artist Interview with 1989 Fellow Ken Schles ahead of a booksigning for Oculus at the International Center of Photography. Ken Schles looks at his career and focuses on his new book Oculus. "Our images are projections that are representative of our awareness of the world."

2011 November 27 ICP Library Blog round-up of books from Paris Photo. Includes Oculus and a photograph of me at Paris Photo Offprint signing copies of my newly released book.

2011 November 19 Quoted: "Ken - I hope you don't mind if I chime in here. I had the pleasure of seeing Oculus at Paris Photo and quite simply it's one of the best new photobooks I have seen in years: a towering accomplishment filled with aesthetic beauty and emotional depth. I can assure you this book will be a classic. Thanks for making it. I'll add that Ken's essay in the rear of the book is beautifully written. Ken's comments on people's silent suffering in the wake of the economic downturn is perfectly rendered. I have just looked at the book again after unpacking my trunks from Paris, and it gave me chills from beginning to end." --Harper Levine, Harper's Books (Jury Selection Committee Member for Le Prix du Livre Paris Photo 2011)

2011 October 14 Guide to Useful Photography (GUP), NL RECOMMENDED. Write-up of Oculus: "Schles invokes Nabokov's idea that memories are the brief separation between the soul's abyss before life, and after death. If these images are a collection of Schles's memories, he's shared them with us, not because we can ever touch his memories, or see them fully, or even understand them; but because we are human, and we can project our own meanings, our own memories."

2011 October 15 thru 19 The 1st Annual Bursa Photo Festival Bursa, Turkey. Exhibition of Invisible City. Master Photographer Guest Speaker. Member of panel disscusing book making, reader along with others present for Jason Eskanazi's Robert Frank "The Americans" and panel discussion on publishishing. Judge for the book dummy award. Portfolio reviewer. Book signing.

2011 October 1 thru 3 Platform LA West Coast preview of the limited edition of Oculus at Lapis Press booth.

2011 September 30 thru October 2 New York Art Book Fair at PS1 Debut of Oculus with advance copies at the Dashwood booth and preview of the limited edition at Charles Lane Press booth.

2011 September Invisible City @ The Photo Book Club The Photo Book Club (out of Hertfordshire, England) will be devoting the month of September to an international open sourced discussion of my book Invisible City. Posted onsite is the book in full. This is the first time Invisible City has been shown in its entirety on the internet. Take a look now and join us the month of September when the discussion begins! This is the 6th book they will have looked at. Previous focus of their attentions have been Robert Frank's The Americans, Richard Avedon's Observations, Eugene Richard's Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue, Larry Sultan's The Valley and Anders Peterson's Cafe Lehmitz. Pass the word and join right in...

2011 March 13 Double Lecture Ken Schles and Jeffrey Silverthorne at the Noorderlicht Photogallery, Groningen, The Netherlands On Sunday, 13 March, Noorderlicht is the right place to be for an inspiring afternoon about photography. Our guests will be two photographers who for many years now have been far from strangers to any audience of photography lovers: Ken Schles and Jeffrey Silverthorne. In the course of their careers both have developed a strong and highly individual style. That is reason for Noorderlicht to devote attention to these two grand masters with a book and exhibition later in 2011. Before that happens, you can already enjoy a foretaste of the experience on 13 March. Ken Schles will present a lecture on his view of the history of photography, and how it has influenced our way of seeing. In 2008 his book A New History of Photography appeared, inwhich he seeks to interpret the history as "a living document that breathes and whose significance changes according to whomever does the looking." For his thesis he draws from a quarter century of his own work and examines how ideas from many sources ultimately become embedded at the individual level. The book was hailed by Photo-Eye Magazine as one of the best photo books of the year and by now has achieved cult status in photography circles. Link to Noorderlicht website announcement.

2010 December The web entity Phonar - [fo-'när] (run by Jonathan Worth out of Coventry University in the UK) put together a list of photography books by selecting a small group of practioners, critics and writers and asking them to nominate a book. Those book authors were then, in turn, asked to do the same "…we contacted some of the worlds most inspirational photographic practitioners, thinkers, authors and publishers and asked them for a book nomination that is notable/ inspiring/ seminal/ provocative, in it's narrative structure/approach or perhaps in its 'discussion' of narrative" The results yielded 31 contributors, 60 nominations on 54 different books. Invisible City was selected twice. See for yourself.

2010 November 30 Presentation to the Library Committee at The International Center of Photography NYC. From the blog Monsters & Madonnas:
"#27 Tuesday, Nov.30, 2010 International Center of Photography Library: Ken Schles shows his impeccable book dummies including a first look into his latest book dummy the profound and moving project Oculus. Tuesday evening the ICP library Committee welcomed one of the great photobook makers of recent years – the Brooklyn based photo book maker Ken Schles." read more...

August 2010 The University & College Designers Association (UCDA) bestows its award of Excellence for work on Brandeis University's viewbook, created by Deborah Weider, design director; Ken Schles principle photography.

2010 June into July Exhibition and symposium, Visual Studies Workshop (VSW) Photo-Bookworks Symposium, Rochester, NY. Exhibition is the same traveling exhibit The Photo-Book Works shown in the Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, WA. Symposium is July 1-3. Exhibition is June 28-July 31.

May into June 2010 Recent work for Brandeis University wins two silver awards, in two categories from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). A sampling can be found here on this website.

2010 April 27 AmericansuburbX ran a bit about Invisible City. See it here.

March 4 2010 Invisible City and A New History of Photography: The World Outside and the Pictures in Our Heads were both acquired by the Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs at The New York Public Library.

Find Invisibe City in a library near you.
Find A New History in a library near you.

March 2010 I set up a Facebook fan page.
It would please me if you join.

2010 January An informal appearance at the photo LA Schaden.com booth where I shared a working copy and prints from my new Oculus project.

2009 June A New History of Photography was a finalist for the 40th Annual Contemporary Author Book Award 2009 - LES RENCONTRES D'ARLES PHOTOGRAPHIE. A satellite showing of the book's images was projected in Arles during the festival along with other Schaden.com White Press projects in The Supermarkt space on Thursady July 9th at 9pm, Place de la Roquette, Arles, France. The two book prizes went to Susan Meiselas for In History, which documents the shattering impact of war on landscape as well as people, and to Swedish photographers Anders Pedersen and JH Engstrom for From Back Home, their collaborative study of their home country over two generations. Good as the study is, it seemed an odd choice considering the strong competition. I can't help feeling that, just as there is too much photography here, there are also too many photography books. From Sean O'Hagen, The Guardian (UK). Link to full review of the festival.

2009 September 9 From A.D. Coleman's blog Photocritic International: "I’ve known photographers who speak and write wonderfully, even brilliantly, about their own work — Mark Klett, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, and Ken Schles, to name three."

2009 May: On the French photography blog 12th Press, an essay by Nicholas Calcott on the relationship between photography and Italo Calvino's book Invisible Cities.

2009 April: On Jeff Ladd's blog 5b4, in a thread responding to Jeff's 2nd anniversary posting on the inflated value of great photobooks, there is an entry (last one) where Gerry Badger weighs in and mentions my book Invisible City. I think the whole thread is pretty interesting. Read it from the start here or click here to just read Gerry Badger's entry (Invisible City is mentioned in the 1st paragraph).

2009 April 18-19 At The Pacific Street Photographic Workshops Jeff Ladd and I taught a weekend workshop Making The Photographic Book. Response? "...both [are] incredibly passionate, well-informed teachers and your love for photography and books is very inspiring. I would recommend the class to anyone who wants to develop a deeper understanding of photography books and how to conceptualize them." — Amy S.
"The sharing of ideas was generous and intelligent." — Laurie L.
"Ken and Jeff were very attuned to the individual needs of the participants. ... Thanks so much for an inspiring and memorable course!" — Sebastian Z.

2009
February 4 and 11 Photo-Eye Magazine review: "Ken Schles: A New History of Photography" by George Slade. Response by Ken Schles. Of the exchange, Daniel Espeset, Managing Editor of Photo-Eye Magazine said,"when first designing the magazine online we were very excited about the potential for creating dialogue and interaction, rather than simply offering unidirectional interpretations of the work. This is the first time I feel like we've fully achieved that goal..."

2009 January-March : More Intensified: The Music Photography of Ken Schles, 1993-2006 a solo exhibition at The Noorderlicht Gallery in Groningen, Holland.

2008
December 31 Photo-Eye Magazine feature story: "a host of photo-world luminaries weigh in on the Best PhotoBooks of 2008" See Jeff Ladd and Markus Schaden's lists.

2008
December 30 Print Run "Best New Books | 2008" #2 A New History of Photography by Ken Schles "One of the most original and challenging books published this year."

2008
December 13 5b4 "Best Books of 2008" #4 A New History of Photography by Ken Schles (Schaden/White Press) Inventive, witty, smart and great book craftsmanship and concept.

2008
Novenmber 28 FAZ "How does a photographjic style develop? By observing the themes of our time!." Article on A New History of Photography by Ken Schles.

2008
October 13 5b4 "Monkey see, Monkey do, everything I say sticks twice on you." review of A New History of Photography by Ken Schles

2008
September 26 Süddeutsche Zeitung Image As Container, excerpt from A New History of Photography by Ken Schles. Excerpt was translated by Andrian Kreye for publication in Germany's largest daily paper.

September 2008: Official release of A New History during Photokina, Cologne, Germany.

2008
August/September Hotshoe "Hot Books Ken Schles: A New History of Photography Insight into the mind of a great photographer," article by Bill Kouwenhoven.

2006 March 10-13 NY Art Fairs 3/10-13/2006 At the New York Armory Show
Schaden.com will show limited edition books by Ken Schles.
At the Pulse Art Fair Lucas Schoormans will show
photographs.

2005
November New Yorker Goings
On About Town Galleries-Chelsea, Vince Aletti on Ken Schles Photographs
at the Lucas Schoormans Gallery.

2005 September 4 -- October 9 My project Homeland Security debuted as part of the Noorderlicht
Festival entitled Traces and Omens. Running concurrently
is an exhibition of Promised Land, which will inaugurate
Noorderlicht's new home and exhibition space in Groningen, The Netherlands.
Click here for more details on the festival and
see below for more information on Promised Land.

Interview between
Miriam Nooi (050 Uitmagazine Groningen) and Ken Schles, August 1st 2005 regarding
his project An Absence in the Presence of Things in the Promised Land exhibit
at the Noorderlicht Gallery in Groningen, The Netherlands, which ran July 30th
2005 through October 9th 2005.

Promised Land, Noorderlicht, Groningen, 2005, photographs by Anders Petersen, Antoine d'Agata,
Ken Schles, John Davies and Adrienne van Eekelen on the city of
Groningen (NL). Previewed and order it here.
An exhibition from the project ran cuncurrently with the Noorderlicht
Photo Festival held in Groningen, The Netherlands (see above).

All participating works (limited to five copies, each containing the original photobook and it´s complentary homage) offered a wide spectrum of approaches often surprising in their detail: Martin Parr chose Araki's Banquet, Koos Breukel chose Ed van der Elsken's Love On The Left Bank, Todd Hido commented on Susan Sontag's On Photography and Ken Schles made reference to Beaumont Newhall's Photography: A Short Critical History, the first english language critical history of photography. Marks Of Honour constituted a singular library and a system of reference on the most sustainable influences by the freshest visionaries in contemporary photography. Note: It was for this exhibition that I developed my project A New History of Photography: The World Outside and the Pictures In Our Heads.

Refrences on the web have all but disappeared, but this landmark exhibit was reprised for a second iteration in 2009, again at the FOAM, with new curators and contributors. In 2012 the form was appropriated by Aperture for an exhibition of artists published by the Aperture Foundation. Aperture Remix was exhibited October 17–November 17, 2012.

2004
November/December Photograph Photo Books, Vice Aletti. Invisible City placed in the context of current book practice.

2004
FOAM Issue #5 NEAR, a portfolio from Invisible City. FOAM is the quarterly publication of the Photography Museum Amsterdam.
(Link is to IC on this site).